Madame de Stael Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Nature, Men

• Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.

  Madame de Stael

  Country, Art, Imagination

• If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.

  Madame de Stael

  Imagination, Looks, Four

• Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Imagination, Faculty

• If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

  Madame de Stael

  Views, Imagination, Succeed

  "The Influence of Literature upon Society". Book by Madame de Stael, 1800.

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